And one of the great things about this phone is that it could even be tweaked to play Ogg Vorbis. Yessss, hopefully my search is finally over.
This is what openness is about. Nevermind all the phones/gadgets/whatever which is called Linux devices just because they use the kernel. If I can't modify it to do the things I want, I could just as well buy yet another Nokia.
Another phone that looks interesting is the ROAD PC phone, but at the moment it's only vaporware.
During the DVD-Jon case here in Norway some years ago, there was in fact this politician (don't remember the name) who openly admitted this. He said something like, "here I am, 50(?) years old, and I'm not into this technology, I mostly use Word", very loosely remembered. I suppose he's not the only one. Some decisions aren't suitable for 50-year old politicians (with all respect), for example the effects laws about software patents and issues about digital rights would have. Many use the computer strictly as a work tool -- MS Word and Excel. I don't expect them to use 80% of their freetime to dig into various operating systems, IRC, programming, P2P, the SCO case and so on, so this is exactly how things naturally will end up. Most people aren't suited for every kind of task.
In the end, they need consultants from the geek community, along with "common users" who will experience the problems braindead laws about DRM etc. will have.
Previously undisclosed details of the security system classification scheme:
small white dots = passengers large yellow circle with a wedge missing = suspicious person
large white circles = eating areas and wireless zones
red, orange, pink and blue ghost figures with eyes = security personnel
airport walls = blue lines
I would also use the term "suspicious person" about him if he walked around eating passengers.
So your CD player doesn't have a pause button? Whoa.
That would be an error-prone hack everyone would forget to apply. Or they may be unable to perform this action because of insufficient permissions to the remote control. There is also those who don't care about this and simply don't care to apply it.
Also I'm tired of flipping that damn record over or having to get up to put on a new one on because the last one only held one song on each side.
This is a thing with CDs which normally is considered a Good Thing compared to the LP, but some albums are in fact incompatible with this feature. Dark Side of The Moon, for example. When side A ends on the LP, you're in this floating mood after "Great Gig in The Sky" has faded out, and you can digest the music a bit before you turn the record.
With the CD, there is no such pause, and after the song has ended, you're suddenly thrown into "Money"'s massive 7/4 beat without no further warning.
But, of course, it works with most other albums. Or are there any more records that are incompatible with the change from two sides to just one?
This is no less than vandalism and theft of potentially free music. What about private recordings which is without the user's consent mangled and will be unusable in three days? A worst-case scenario is when the clean audio file is deleted because "someone else has a backup of it".
This just have to flop. The average user can't be so stupid that s/he accepts this humbug.
And you find that the google www.google.com/u/gplus doesnt work now. I'll say one thing. They sure are quick.
How the hell did they manage that gazillion man hours work of disabling a webpage & then testing the fix of disabling the webpage so quickly.
I bet everyone right from the top to botton at Google must have been working non-stop on disabling this webpage.
I'm sorry for bringing this eternal FOSS-theme into the picture, but as Google is pretty involved in the FOSS community, they know that users of free software don't believe in security by obscurity (which this isn't anymore anyway) and they are used to quick fixes to security holes.
No wait for next month's upgrade, things are fixed by someone right now.
And cracked user accounts are bad publicity in any case.
I believe digitization of our entire literature is the goal. Think big.
But please don't use MS Word or something like that in the process. When things are going to be digitized, it should stay readable for many years no matter which hardware platform or software is used.
By using formats like DocBook or TEI much future work is saved when the book shall be converted to the current fashion of dataformats.
Really awesome stunt. Would any MSIE users do something like this to show their enthusiasm for the product? Probably not. This stunt is somewhat the same principle as when geeks on Linux meetings bring their penguins with them in all shapes and sizes. I mean, you don't see MS Windows users arrive with big amounts of glass...
That's a bit of some old 80's modem humor. People dialed into a BBS or serial terminal with a VT emulator in those days. If you were disconnected because of some line noise you'd see garbled characters and then the NO CARRIER message from your own modem.
I was one of those. Which resulted in a BBS message from a slightly annoyed user. He had this over-intelligent communication program which assumed the connection was lost when it encountered that line. So it hung up the modem.
Note: ## instead of # for channels means that it is a help or 'about' channel.
Actually, this is a new way of doing things on freenode from about a year ago or so. Channels with only one # denotes an official channel for the project, where core developers often hang out and help, having project meetings and so on. Examples are #docbook, #svn and #mediawiki. Channels starting with "##" are unofficial channels for a project, used for helping out for this specific software/distro/whatever, for example ##linux. More info about this here.
Given that they're also reporting that 80% of viruses defeat Norton and the other big AV programs, I'd say yes, it is a joke.
That surprises me a bit. When I used DOS in the old days, software produced by Norton was always of high quality, maybe flagships in the DOS world. Norton Commander was very popular, it could be considered as the file manager, and Norton Utilities was a musthave, with lots of system administration tools and useful programs.
It seems as when they started to produce MS Windows tools, they lost their leading position in the market. Norton Commander for Windows didn't catch on, AFAIK, but that's maybe because Windows already had its own file manager. Norton Commander became superfluous. So, when they started producing anti-virus software I believe they were rated as some of the best, at least in the beginning.
It is quite interesting to see how a big software company with great products and good reputation can be degraded into second-class software in just a few years.
It's a horrible patent, and I hope the court finds the patent invalid.
And if it's deemed invalid, there's still a truckload of obvious, absurd patents out there just waiting for us to use thousands of hours to prove it's invalid. So does it actually make much of a difference? Of course, in this special case it does, but as long as software patents exists, there will be a never-ending struggle against new and horrible patents.
In fact, to quote a great machine: "The only winning move is not to play.". How I'd wish that the major group of users and programmers would just ignore this software patent crap and just use whatever programming method that's available. There's safety in numbers, they can't sue us all.
Hm, seems as I'm responsible for this post to be marked (temporarily) as Flamebait. That was an accident, I suspect I've unintentionally pressed the space bar, arrow keys or something. Tried to fix it by remoderating, but was told it's already moderated. Sorry. At least it's undone when I'm posting to the thread.:)
Is there any way to get an extra page after the "moderate" button is pressed where one has to confirm the action?
The operating system about to be loaded does not have a valid security signature. As such it is not possible for the BIOS to prevent unsafe software from operating. Are you sure that you wish to continue loading this software.
Yep, it will be something like that except the last sentence.
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If they can afford to buy Microsoft they probably don't worry about getting fired neither...
And one of the great things about this phone is that it could even be tweaked to play Ogg Vorbis. Yessss, hopefully my search is finally over.
This is what openness is about. Nevermind all the phones/gadgets/whatever which is called Linux devices just because they use the kernel. If I can't modify it to do the things I want, I could just as well buy yet another Nokia.
Another phone that looks interesting is the ROAD PC phone, but at the moment it's only vaporware.
During the DVD-Jon case here in Norway some years ago, there was in fact this politician (don't remember the name) who openly admitted this. He said something like, "here I am, 50(?) years old, and I'm not into this technology, I mostly use Word", very loosely remembered. I suppose he's not the only one. Some decisions aren't suitable for 50-year old politicians (with all respect), for example the effects laws about software patents and issues about digital rights would have. Many use the computer strictly as a work tool -- MS Word and Excel. I don't expect them to use 80% of their freetime to dig into various operating systems, IRC, programming, P2P, the SCO case and so on, so this is exactly how things naturally will end up. Most people aren't suited for every kind of task.
In the end, they need consultants from the geek community, along with "common users" who will experience the problems braindead laws about DRM etc. will have.
I would also use the term "suspicious person" about him if he walked around eating passengers.
That would be an error-prone hack everyone would forget to apply. Or they may be unable to perform this action because of insufficient permissions to the remote control. There is also those who don't care about this and simply don't care to apply it.
This is a thing with CDs which normally is considered a Good Thing compared to the LP, but some albums are in fact incompatible with this feature. Dark Side of The Moon, for example. When side A ends on the LP, you're in this floating mood after "Great Gig in The Sky" has faded out, and you can digest the music a bit before you turn the record.
With the CD, there is no such pause, and after the song has ended, you're suddenly thrown into "Money"'s massive 7/4 beat without no further warning.
But, of course, it works with most other albums. Or are there any more records that are incompatible with the change from two sides to just one?
This is no less than vandalism and theft of potentially free music. What about private recordings which is without the user's consent mangled and will be unusable in three days? A worst-case scenario is when the clean audio file is deleted because "someone else has a backup of it".
This just have to flop. The average user can't be so stupid that s/he accepts this humbug.
I'm sorry for bringing this eternal FOSS-theme into the picture, but as Google is pretty involved in the FOSS community, they know that users of free software don't believe in security by obscurity (which this isn't anymore anyway) and they are used to quick fixes to security holes. No wait for next month's upgrade, things are fixed by someone right now. And cracked user accounts are bad publicity in any case.
But please don't use MS Word or something like that in the process. When things are going to be digitized, it should stay readable for many years no matter which hardware platform or software is used.
By using formats like DocBook or TEI much future work is saved when the book shall be converted to the current fashion of dataformats.
Really awesome stunt. Would any MSIE users do something like this to show their enthusiasm for the product? Probably not. This stunt is somewhat the same principle as when geeks on Linux meetings bring their penguins with them in all shapes and sizes. I mean, you don't see MS Windows users arrive with big amounts of glass...
I was one of those. Which resulted in a BBS message from a slightly annoyed user. He had this over-intelligent communication program which assumed the connection was lost when it encountered that line. So it hung up the modem.
Actually, this is a new way of doing things on freenode from about a year ago or so. Channels with only one # denotes an official channel for the project, where core developers often hang out and help, having project meetings and so on. Examples are #docbook, #svn and #mediawiki. Channels starting with "##" are unofficial channels for a project, used for helping out for this specific software/distro/whatever, for example ##linux. More info about this here.
That surprises me a bit. When I used DOS in the old days, software produced by Norton was always of high quality, maybe flagships in the DOS world. Norton Commander was very popular, it could be considered as the file manager, and Norton Utilities was a musthave, with lots of system administration tools and useful programs.
It seems as when they started to produce MS Windows tools, they lost their leading position in the market. Norton Commander for Windows didn't catch on, AFAIK, but that's maybe because Windows already had its own file manager. Norton Commander became superfluous. So, when they started producing anti-virus software I believe they were rated as some of the best, at least in the beginning.
It is quite interesting to see how a big software company with great products and good reputation can be degraded into second-class software in just a few years.
So this means that Moore's Law is finally blown into pieces?
And if it's deemed invalid, there's still a truckload of obvious, absurd patents out there just waiting for us to use thousands of hours to prove it's invalid. So does it actually make much of a difference? Of course, in this special case it does, but as long as software patents exists, there will be a never-ending struggle against new and horrible patents.
In fact, to quote a great machine: "The only winning move is not to play.". How I'd wish that the major group of users and programmers would just ignore this software patent crap and just use whatever programming method that's available. There's safety in numbers, they can't sue us all.
Hm, seems as I'm responsible for this post to be marked (temporarily) as Flamebait. That was an accident, I suspect I've unintentionally pressed the space bar, arrow keys or something. Tried to fix it by remoderating, but was told it's already moderated. Sorry. At least it's undone when I'm posting to the thread. :)
Is there any way to get an extra page after the "moderate" button is pressed where one has to confirm the action?
Yep, it will be something like that except the last sentence.